The Music Stores!

The highlight of my time in London was the time spent in the Music Stores. 

On Denmark Street there are about a dozen music stores!

There is an almost endless selection of music shops.

Foyles, is just around the corner from Denmark Street, and they have music for almost any instrument you can think of!
And, Dad got Mom books about Caribbean History too!

I had a great time looking through their selections of organ music. 

I bought so many new scores. I can't wait to try them all out. 

My Grade 8 RCM Exam

Today, I had my Royal Conservatory Piano exam.

These are the songs I did:

Etude, Op. 27, No. 24 by D. Kabalevsky 

Etude in D Minor, Op. 45, No. 15 by Stephen Heller 

Invention No 13 in A Minor by J.S. Bach BWV 784 

Sonata No 15 in C Major, 1st Movement, by W.A. Mozart K.545 

Mazurka in A Minor Opus 68 No 2 by F. Chopin 

Sonatina for Piano by A. Khatchaturian 

The exam could have been better.
I had to restart the Bach Invention and I made a couple of mistakes in the Kabalevsky Etude. The other pieces were good.

I did the sight reading was a waltz and I played it too fast, so I made a few mistakes.

The chord progressions were different from how I expected. In class, my teacher would play it once and I identify them all in one go. In this exam it is played once and then a second time, stopping at each chord so I could identify them individually.


After my exam, I went to practice some organ. This week was all about piano even though I felt a little sick on Wednesday.

Here is a short video from my practice today.
You can see me selecting the registrations and then starting the piece.

Voluntary in A Minor by Boyce

A special thank you to Elaine for allowing me to practice today.
I loved every second of it!
Thank you!